PayPal IPO and the coming consolidation in Daily Fintech Index
You lose one, then you gain one. The Daily Fintech Index has lost Xoom (acquired July 7) and gained PayPal ...
Tag: InvestTech
Loan origination risks have shifted from the “crowds” to the “Wall”
By Efi Pylarinou Regulatory constraints posed to financial institutions post 2008 crisis, led to a squeeze of financing services traditionally ...
From “P2P Lending” to “Lending Marketplaces”: the graceful dance has started
By Efi Pylarinou In my recent Linkedin post, I reviewed my DailyFintech posts (from Easter to beginning of Summer) and ...
DarcMatter: from secret spreadsheets to an online marketplace in alternatives
By Efi Pylarinou DarcMatter provides transparent, institutional-level access to alternative investment opportunities. I’ve already mentioned them in a post focused ...
Fintechs chasing the Unadvised assets that are up for grabs
By Efi Pylarinou A billion dollars… A hundred billion dollars… Eight hundred billion dollars… One TRILLION dollars… The last time I was hassling in my head with ...
Xapo Digital gold custody for wealth managers
Xapo offers an alternative to storing gold. This is like a return to the Wild West days of banking when ...
The Overstock crypto-currency bond: a TIGRcub to settle and clear on TØ.com
By Efi Pylarinou TIGRcub is a crytobond by Patrick Byrne – a disrupter with a mission. If you watched the ...
Hedgehogs have one simple trick and Hedgeable too
By Efi Pylarinou I am walking down the isle of a trading floor of some JP Morgan, Goldman, or Deutsche ...
A Random Walk around the globe in search of robo-advisors
By Efi Pylarinou I can't believe that May went by and I didn’t write anything about the robo space. Rumors ...
Hedge Funds can’t hide from the Fintech swirls
By Efi Pylarinou JP Morgan put out an opinion that hedge fund return volatility has been dampened after the crisis ...
